Verse Text: 29:1 A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the
LORD glory and strength.
We serve a living God, who though he is a Spirit (John 4:24), exercises human characteristics. Everyone who has ever had a broken heart and cried unto God is glad that he listens and hears our faintest cry. All of us are thankful that He sees exactly where we are. But one of His greatest attributes is that He speaks to us. Recently, I was diagnosed with having a nodule on my vocal chords. The specialist basically said, "Other than surgery, there are only two things that can help your voice...complete vocal rest and water." Silence. Do you know how hard it is not to articulate? God has never had a nodule. No one has ever had to put God on vocal rest. He is speaking even now and He is calling your name. What does the voice of the Lord do? David tells us that this voice makes the waters tremble and shakes the earth with its thunder. David says that the voice breaks cedars into pieces and makes the animals jump! This voice David describes strikes like lighting and makes the desert shake. What a voice; the voice of the Lord.
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But the greatest thing the voice ever did was to call me from darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9). Voices of distraction and sin were calling my name but right in the middle of that dark madness...I heard Him say, "Randy, follow me!" My life has never been the same. He called me. Seven times in Revelation it says "Let he that has an ear hear what the Spirit is saying." In other words, the speaker is not the problem but the receiver often is. Do you hear the voice of the Lord? Have you ever heard the voice of the Lord? If you believe that He can hear you then you must believe that you can hear Him. Samuel, a prophet-in-waiting, knew about God, about the things of God and about the house of God. But when God intimately called his name, he ran in the wrong direction. Many of us know how to sing about God, how to worship, how to rightly divide the Word of God. We know scripture and we know form, but how many of us know God? Knowing God is always tied to hearing His voice. Therefore, we should pray the latter half of Samuel's prayer, "Your servant is listening" with more passion than "Speak Lord." He is speaking; do you hear His voice? If not, you can.
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